![]() Starting off, you’ll steer your vessel left or right to dodge oncoming hurdles and blast enemies away as the game cries out with bizarre yet familiar arcade sound bites. There’s leeway to make a few mistakes in the standard mode and still soldier on. Polybius does work its way up to be fairly demanding, but it’s a gradual rise spread across 50 levels. Not knowing a whole lot about this game going in, I wrongly assumed it would be super tough and mechanically complex. It won’t give you amnesia or night terrors, but it will put you in The Zone. Polybius, the real game that you can play right now on your PlayStation 4, is merely an “interpretation” of those tall tales. The name is a riff on an old urban legend that spoke of a mysterious ’80s arcade cabinet with hallucinatory side effects that may or may not have had ties to tests run by the US government. Why’s it called that? What even is it? Won’t it give me motion sickness? Polybius, the trippy new arcade shooter from long-time designer Jeff Minter, is a question-inducing game.
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